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...when they are pro, she generally ends up with a little more patchwork. This failing leads to a purple scene with the specialist himself. However, he is stupid about it and repulses her advances. This part of the book is also memorable for a typographer's error that gives us the crisp descriptive sentence: "Her hand sank on his shoulder with a low laugh...
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...that undergraduates are younger now than they were in his time. This, we have seen, is a mistake. He tells you also that they are smaller. I recall one such enthusiast who insisted to me that present-day graduates were 'runty.' Here he is more seriously in error, for where physical examinations and measurements in the colleges have continued over any long stretch of time, they indicate, if anything, that the average freshman is somewhat taller...
...list of non-resident tutors that will be members of the staff of House unit number one under Professor J. L. Coolidge, announced in yesterday's CRIMSON, the names of P. P. Chase and Dr. Theodore Kreps were omitted in error. The former will tutor in the field of English and the latter will be in Economics...
Often when the West comes to the East (even when the West comes bearing gifts) the visit is made with the assumption that all things occidental are superior, that all things oriental are deplorable. No such error was made in Yenching University's architecture. Here buildings were so designed by able Manhattanite Henry Killam Murphy as to harmonize with the country and the civilization of which they are a part. There are Forbes, Wheeler, Gamble, and Finley Dormitories, but despite their Anglo-Saxon names these buildings have the blue-tiled pagoda roofs, white walls, red lacquer columns, carved porches...